You Can't Trust Buzzfeed - Breitbart

You Can't Trust Buzzfeed - Breitbart: "For example: late last week, British political blog Guido Fawkes revealed that Buzzfeed UK had removed an article from its website that embarrassed an advertiser. The article was a frivolous, derogatory rant about the board game Monopoly by recent recruit Tom Chivers.

It turns out that Hasbro, which publishes Monopoly, had paid Buzzfeed to promote one of its other games. Anxious about upsetting a major sponsor, someone higher up the chain at Buzzfeed yanked the article. Buzzfeed even added a line of code to its website so no one could find the page using a search engine.

It would have been predictably skanky behaviour, but not a scandal, were it not for the fact that Buzzfeed UK had, a few short weeks earlier, gleefully reported on allegations that the Daily Telegraph gave HSBC, a regular Telegraph advertiser, an easy ride in its business pages.

Arguably, Buzzfeed’s sin was greater, both because it involved a retroactive deletion and also because the stakes were so low: if the site was prepared to edit the code on its website to cover up such a trivial article, how could the site be trusted to write fairly about the social issues it aspires to cover in its long-form journalism?

The chutzpah and hypocrisy are jaw-dropping."



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